I have been interested in Trakl’s work for several years now, stimulated by several essays in the American literary press, the provenance of which I, alas, have forgotten.What does stay in particular is the poem De Profundis, which is both remarkable and devastating.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWiap8pmxagMichael Hamburger’s translation is this:There is a stubble field on which a black rain falls. […]